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The Anatomy Book IV. 

Tab. 72. 
Tab. 72. 
Tab. 72, 
Tab, 72. 
7. §. The Seeds of Harts-tongue, and of all that Tribe, are Slung or 
Shot away. The doing of which is performed by the curious contri- 
vance of the Seed-Cafes asin Codded Arfiart, and fome other like 
Plants. Only there, the Sprivg moves and curles up inward 5 but here 
it moves outward. I fhall defcribe it, as well as the Weather ( which 
whenI obferved it was cloudy ) would permit. Every Seed-Cafe, as 
it appears through a good Gia/s, ftands upon a Pedicle from & an Inch 
to an Inch or more in Length; at the bottom about as thick again as a 
Horfe-hair, and a little thicker at the Tvp, on which ftands the Cafe, of 
a Silver Colours about the bignefs of a Cherry-flone, of a Spherick Fi- 
gure, and girded about with a fturdy Tendon or Spring, of the 
Colour of Gold: the whole Machine looking not much unlike a little 
Padlock, The Surface of the Spring refemblesa fine Serem, or fome of 
the Aer-Veffels in the Wood of a Plant. So foon as by the Iznate Aer of 
the Plant, or otherwife, this Sprizg is become ftark enough, it fudden- 
ly breaks the Ca/e into two halfs, like two little cups, and fo {lings 
the Seed. ] 
8. §. Thefe Cafes grow in oblique Furrows or Trenches on the back 
fide the Leaf, from; of an Inch to an Inch in Length, and about 3th 
of an Inch broad. Inone of thefe Trexches an Inch long are more than 
300 of the Cafes above defcribed ; and allowing but 10 Seeds to every 
Café, above 3000 Seeds. Which being multiplied by the number of 
Furrows in one Leaf, with allowance for the lefler Furrows 3 and that 
fumm by the number of Leaves commonly growing upon one Root, 
comes to above Ten Hundred Thoufand Seeds, the annual produ& of 
this Plant. The Sced isof a Tawny Coloursthrough a good Glafi about 
z'h of an Inch long, flat, and fomewhat oval. Of thefe, ten Thou- 
fand are not fo big asa white Pepper Cors. ; 
a a a FOE 2 
i Ae ae 
Of the feveral COV ERS of Seeds, and of the VI- 
TELLUM. 



Adc AST Ga HE next ftep of Natures Managery, relates chief 
pia len to the reas of the Seed eae is fow’n. For 
S' = ar <7 which purpofe, the outer Covers are fomewhere 
eR iM Ss} furnifhed with Apertures fufficient for the recep- 
$ Lis tion of Alimental Moyfer from the Ground 3 and 
SS 


y, ‘ NS?) Divifions, for the shooting forth of the young 
RS SKE Root into it. As in the Seed of a Gourd, at the 

Bottom 5 ina Bean, on the Side; and in a Chef 
auf, at the Top: in which places the Radicle or young Root always 
lies and puts forth, in the faid feveral Seeds. And the seed of Pala 
Chrifti 3 which falls to the Ground not only. in the ufual Covers, but 
alfo inthe Seed-Ca/fé, for the more plentiful admiffion of Aliment, hath 
adouble Aperture, Not much unlike to this, is that found fometimes 
in 

